Chapter 5 is here!
"What do you mean you were there? You could have helped him, yet you did nothing about it? Is that why you kept it a secret? So you wouldn't be seen as a heartless pup?" Chase growled.
"Kinda, but not in the way you powtway it" Zuma replied.
"Oh, weally?" Chase mocked, "is the poow little pup scawed that he would get exposed?"
"Stop it Chase, you have no right in butting into our past like that, and mocking Zuma, that's a new low, even for you Chase. Maybe I never should have trusted you in the first place!" Rocky replied harshly.
"Hah, without me and Ryder, you would have been no one, you would have been a stray wandering the streets with the police on your tail!" Chase hollered back.
Rocky and Chase were at each other's throats until Ryder came out of the lookout's upstairs and yelled at the two pups to go to bed and be quiet. Rocky and Chase gave each other a death glare and walk off to their pup house, leaving Zuma behind questioning what had just happened. Soon Zuma also returned to his pup house to sleep. The next morning, Chase was noticeably more harsh to Rocky than ever. When Chase woke up the other pups, he made sure to blast his speaker right into Rocky's ear. Rocky jolted awake by the loud noise and frantically looked around to find what just made that blaring sound. Once Rocky realized that Chase was the one that blasted it, he growled and tackled Chase to the ground. Chase tried pushing Rocky off, but Rocky, using his mechanical limbs, kept Chase pinned down. Soon Ryder came around the corner to see what was holding up Chase waking all the pups for breakfast, saw Rocky pinning him down, then quickly running to Rocky and Chase, pulling Rocky off of Chase.
"Rocky, you know it's against the rules to interfere with Chase when he has business to do. I'm very disappointed in you, seeing you were the second pup that joined the team" Ryder scolded Rocky.
"I'm sorry Ryder, I'm just a bit tense after Chase blasted his megaphone right in my ear." He told Ryder.
"Serves you right you double crossing piece of garbage" Chase muttered under his breath.
"And you, Chase, I'm more disappointed in you, considering you were here before Rocky and is the second in command of this team. You know better than to anger a member of the team!" Ryder scolded Chase.
"But Rocky was being ungrateful!" Chase defended.
"No buts. Chase, after you get the other pups up, I want both of you to come into my office immediately. You two will not have breakfast until you explain what is happening between you two." Ryder responded.
Chase gave a glare towards Rocky and resumed calling the other pups. After every pup was persuaded to leave their pup houses and eat breakfast, Rocky and Chase went to Ryder's office. Ryder let them in and Rocky and Chase started to bicker again. Ryder, after hearing a bit of the arguing, decided to quiet them down and hear Rocky's story. Rocky described his past again to Ryder just as he did with the pups, and after Rocky finished, Ryder sat there, thinking about what Rocky had just told him, and started to make a decision on what to do about Rocky and Chase.
"Okay, first off, I want Chase to apologize to Rocky, as I see you were the first to argue" Ryder composed. "Then I want Rocky to apologize to Chase because you shouldn't have reacted in the way you did. Afterwards, you are both suspended from the PAW Patrol for a month, and in this month, I want you two to form a relationship like you two did before the other pups arrived."
"But Ryder..." both Chase and Rocky started.
"No buts, and that's final" Ryder scolded.
Rocky and Chase stared at Ryder, then at each other, narrowed their eyes and nodded. Rocky and Chase were then dismissed by Ryder and told them to get their breakfast, but neither of them felt hungry. As Rocky and Chase left the room, they found the rest of the team sitting outside, eavesdropping on their conversation.
"What happened? What does Ryder mean when he said the relationship before we arrived? Is there more Rocky is hiding?" Marshall questioned.
"We'll explain everything, right Chase" Rocky glared at Chase who knew that Chase was not the type to reveal his past.
Chase glared at Rocky, giving him another death glare and sat down.
"Fine, but I want to hear Zuma's story first, since he was there with you Rocky" Chase responded.
Every pup turned their eyes onto Zuma who had just shrunk himself down after hearing Chase blurt out his little secret.
"I'll explain Zuma's past if he doesn't want to" Rocky defended Zuma.
"No, it's ok, I'll explain my own history Rocky, you have done enough explaining" Zuma responded.
Zuma was also born in the same lab Rocky was in. Zuma was in an experiment called "Complete Control", where they wanted to see if they could change the outcome of a pup's behavior by altering living conditions and encounters. Zuma had a foster mother and father, but Zuma never knew. Zuma also had a "brother" and that brother was Rocky. Rocky also never realized that his foster mother and father were not his biological parents, and lived his life not knowing he was taken away from his real parents. They lived in a bright colored house with multiple floors. on each floor was a treat dispenser with every single type of treat they could have thought of. There were bones, biscuits, and chews with a variety of flavors such as liver and pepperoni. All the wallpapers were chosen by Zuma, which they all was a water blue color. In the back of the house there was a giant pool that Zuma and Rocky would swim together in. There was a diving board, as well as swim instructors to teach Zuma how to swim, but they wouldn't offer Rocky how to swim, however. Upstairs there were many rooms, most were dedicated for Zuma to play in. In one room there were building blocks, while other rooms contained figurines to play with. In the other rooms that weren't for player were for sleeping. Each bedroom had a king sized bed and a night stand next to the bed. Zuma and Rocky would do everything together, that included playing in the blocks room, running around the front yard or the pool, eating, and sleeping. They would have slept in the same bed, keeping each other company. Even though Rocky was never given a name, Zuma was given one, and Zuma never realized that his brother never had a name to respond to. Zuma would always just catch Rocky's attention or call him brother or dude and start their conversation.
Zuma would always be given whatever he wanted, as it was part of his experiment, but was always told not to share it with anyone, not even his own brother. Zuma never understood why, but followed their commands as long as he got stuff he wanted. Life was great for Rocky and Zuma. After a year Zuma was born, however, Rocky was just taken without notice while they were sleeping. Zuma and Rocky during the day planned what to do for their first birthday. They decided they would throw a party with mud pies they made and play in the front yard, as well as go swimming in the pool. As soon as Zuma woke up, he saw that Rocky had just disappeared, looked around, but didn't think too much about it. After getting washed up, he realized that Rocky was nowhere to be seen. He started to ask the scientists where Rocky was, until he realized that he didn't know how to mention Rocky, as he was not given a name.
"Uh, excuse me, but whewe is, uh, my, uh, brother?" Zuma asked.
"Oh, he had to go do something else. Don't worry, your life will still be the same, with him or not" the scientist responded.
Zuma's heart was shattered. Rocky was gone and all his plans to celebrate their birthday were crushed. The scientists, however, still tried to make Zuma happy by celebrating his birthday alone. At first Zuma was too depressed to do anything, but started to notice all the decoration around, including balloons and streamers hung all around, and soon started to cheer up. Zuma participated in many party games the scientists set up like pin the tail on the sheep and bobbing for dog treats, and during this time, Zuma forgot about Rocky completely. After Zuma's party, Zuma went back to his house. Zuma felt lonely without another pup to talk to, and wished more than anything to have Rocky back. The scientists, noticing Zuma's depression, gave Zuma a new tablet to keep him entertained, and it worked. Zuma spent all day on that tablet, and soon memories of Rocky were just distant memories. Zuma would play games, listen to music, or read up on the news if he was especially bored or lonely.
After living in there for another year, Zuma had lived a happy, regular, yet spoiled life. He started to get bored of everything, and eventually just slept all day. During one of his naps, Zuma heard a loud, blaring noise coming from a distance. Zuma looked up, looked out of a window and saw that there were red lights flashing from the windows. Zuma started to get curious, and ran up to the window. He saw multiple scientists run in all directions and in the scurry saw a pup with multiple wounds, the most noticeable was the gash in his belly. Something triggered in Zuma's brain and started to remember memories of his lost brother, and realized that the pup outside might have been the same pup that was his brother. He wanted to help his brother out, but the thick glass held him in, and no one could hear him. After hearing a window shatter, he hoped that it was a scientist, and not his brother, and speakers above him started to blare out information about a breakout. Zuma soon realized that his brother was trying to escape, and that he knew something that Zuma did not. After the loud blaring noises stopped playing, scientists came in to check up on Zuma to see if he was OK.
"Uh, what was going outside? What happened?" Zuma questioned.
"Nothing, nothing you need to worry about. You are safe in here." the scientists responded.
"Oh, ok, can I have something?" Zuma asked.
"Name away" the scientists responded again.
"I want to go outside, not out the house, but the weal outside" Zuma asked.
The scientist's smile soon turned into a frown and started to question the others. After a while, the scientists had denied him of his wish, and Zuma was shocked. Never before was he not given what he asked for. Zuma asked why he couldn't go outside and the scientists replied that the outside was just like the front yard of his house and should never again ask to go outside. After thinking about the scientist's reply, Zuma realized that the scientists were hiding something from Zuma, just like he expected. Zuma's life wasn't what he thought it was like, and right as the scientists were about to leave, there was a loud banging sound near the front.
"Police! Open the door! We have reasons to believe that this facility is breaking the law!" an officer shouted.
No one answered the door after the police officer made his statement, and many louder banging noise came from the door. Suddenly, a crash was heard from the door which Zuma assumed that the door was just knocked down, and police officers swarmed the whole building. Soon officers entered the room Zuma was in and immediately arrested the scientists there that were trying to escape through another exit. Zuma watched as the officers dragged them out of the building, leaving Zuma sitting there. Then, another officer came to Zuma and started to question him.
"Hello there little pup, what's your name?" the officer asked.
"It's Zuma. What's happening here? Am I going to die?" Zuma replied.
"No little pup, you are safe now. Whatever they have done to you, you are now safe from it. Let's get you to a proper home now" the officer said.
Zuma was picked up and put into the officer's arms. Zuma watched as they moved into the halls and out through the front door. Zuma noticed the shattered window that he assumed the officer fell through, and there was blood streaks on the glass with glass shards outside. Next to the window was a broken door with a giant hole the size of a pup in the bottom. Zuma wondered who was strong enough to break down a door to that status, and remembered seeing Rocky running out. Did my brother do that Zuma wondered.
Once Zuma was carried out of the building, Zuma took a deep breath of fresh air and it felt good. Zuma also smelled a scent that was familiar, one that he had known for a year, Rocky's scent. He jumped out of the officers arms and started to follow the scent. The officer tried to chase Zuma down, but gave up in the end as Zuma was too fast for him and Zuma didn't seem to want to return to the officer anyways. Zuma tracked Rocky's scent and noticed a difference from Rocky's scent. It smelled slightly metallic, but wasn't sure why. Zuma tracked the scent all the way to the city, but Rocky's scent got mingled into the other scents of people strolling around. Lost, Zuma looked up and questioned where he was and where Rocky was. Zuma looked around and found a sign, on the sign it said "Adventure Bay". Zuma knew that there was a place called Adventure Bay, as the scientists told him that he was there, but after realizing the scientists had lied to him his whole life, needed another indication that he was in Adventure Bay. It was getting late and Zuma needed a place to stay and sleep. Zuma found an alley and walked down it. In there was a thrown out mattress that was stained with who knows what. Zuma knew that his past life and experiences were over and best forgotten. That meant that Zuma needed new ideals. Zuma went onto the mattress and fell onto the bed. Zuma fell asleep within five minutes.
The next day Zuma started to look for his brother again. Zuma looked everywhere for Rocky. He went to multiple establishments to find Rocky, including a restaurant, a pet shop, and even sneaked into a animal shelter to see if Rocky was caught. Zuma never found Rocky in any of these places, which was slightly comforting that to think Rocky hadn't been caught by the dog catchers. After searching the entire town, Zuma could not find Rocky. With all hope lost, Zuma started to think that Rocky was actually dead, and the scent he smelled was from a cleanup unit picking up Rocky's dead body. Zuma went back to his mattress and tried to fall asleep again. Zuma almost fell asleep until he heard a crash. Zuma jolted awake and walked out of the alley. He saw that the restaurant's window was shattered with shards all around. As Zuma walked closer to the window, a small figure jumped back out and ran off. When Zuma saw the figure jump out, he quickly dove behind the trash cans left outside. After Zuma thought the figure was gone, he walked up to the window. He saw that there was a torn box with frosting all over it, most likely was a cake, but other than that and the window, nothing else was touched. Zuma sniffed around and picked up another scent, Rocky's scent. Zuma started to feel joy, and immediately followed the scent to where it came from. Zuma found himself in an alley and walked around. This alley was more barren than his own, and saw no place where a pup could sleep. Then he saw the figure that broke into the shop. He was sleeping on a makeshift bed made out of trashed items such as towels and cotton balls. The figure was another pup with gave Zuma hope. The pup also had many cuts under his fur and was slightly bleeding. Zuma also noted that there was a glowing blue necklace on the pup's neck which Zuma hoped it wasn't stolen from a shop. Zuma took a closer look and the other pup jolted awake.
"Who's there?" the figure growled.
"Uh, hi, have you seen my bwother?" Zuma asked as he walked closer to the other pup.
"Huh, what's his name?" the other pup asked.
"Uh, I don't know, I always just called him bwother. have you seen him? Wait, you smell just like him!" Zuma replied happily.
"Wait, Zuma? I haven't seen you in a long time! How's it been? Boy do I have so much to tell you." Rocky responded happily.
Zuma had finally found his brother.
As Zuma finished telling his tale, everyone had calmed down. Chase stopped growling at Rocky, and Rocky had sat down and listened intently. The rest of the pups sat and stared at Zuma with the same expression that they stared at Rocky when he finished his story.
"Well, that's my history with Wocky. Now it's your tuwn Chase. What was youw welation to Wocky?" Zuma told Chase.
"Well, first of all, I'm sorry about assuming that you were a jerk to Rocky. I never should have eavesdropped in the first place. I guess it's my turn to tell a tale" Chase responded.
There's the end to Chapter 5, hope you enjoyed. I feel this wasn't as good or eventful as my other chapters, but the next chapter should explain after Rocky escaped and reunited with Zuma in Chase's perspective. I'll try to write chapter 6 as soon as possible, it could be the next day or next week, depending how I feel. Like always, spelling mistakes, how I can improve, thanks for reading!